Sales catalogue 491: Maggs Bros

Date:
1927
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/50
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 491: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Famous VOYAGE UNDERTAKEN FOR DiscovERING A New RouTE To THE Paciric OcEAN. WITH THE Scarce LarcGE FoLpine Map. 162i A.D. [23] NODAL (Bartolomé Garcia de ¢» Gongalo de). Relacion del viaje por orden de su Magd. y acuerdo del Real Con- sejo de Indias, hizieron los Capitanes Bartolome Garcia de Nodal y Goncalo de Nodal, hermanos, naturales de Pontevedra, al descubrimiento del Estrecho nuevo de S. Vicente y reconosi- miento del de Magallanes. With engraved title-page showing portraits of the two navigators and their vessels, and the very large folding map of Magellan Straits. First Eprrion. Small 4to. A magnificent copy in crimson levant morocco gilt, doublures of blue levant morocco with a beautiful gold dentelle, watered suk fly leaves, g. e. Madrid (Fernando Correa de Montenegro), 1621. (See Intustrration, Pirate No. IX). £450 First Edition. Not in Salva or Heredia. Sabin No. 55394: ‘‘ This edition of the voyage for the discovery of the Magellan Straits performed by the two brothers Nodal, with the original map, is one of the rarest books of its class. The map (for some unknown reason) is found in very few copies. The Strait of San Vincente had been traversed by Le Maire shortly before the brothers Nodal, and his name has remained to designate it.’’ | The brothers were recalled from their respective engagements by the Consejo de Indias, Bartolomé Garcia was serving with the Pacific Fleet, while his brother Gongalo was in Corunna. On the King’s instructions (Philip III) they were summoned to Madrid, where the expedition was proposed to them. They were to proceed to Lisbon, where two vessels of eighty tons each were built for them by Alvia de Castro, the King’s shipbuilder. Each vessel was armed with four guns weighing from ten to twelve quintals, four mortars, thirty muskets and arque- buses, etc., and manned by forty sailors, all of whom were Portuguese. They carried supplies for ten months, ‘‘and as the voyage was so far and risky, there wag not one who went voluntarily, but all had to be forced,’’ the authors tell us. They sailed from Lisbon on the 27th September, 1618, the crew having been given ten months’ pay in advance, and the two Captains in high spirits over the adven- ture. They returned from their famous journey on the 9th July, 1619, Captain Goncalo having disembarked at Cape St. Vincent on the 7th to inform the King of Spain, who was then in Lisbon, all about the voyage. | 1621 A.D. [24] DITTO. Another: Copy. In Spanish calf. Wanting the Map. {20